“We’re excited and proud to be partners now with PRX,” Glass said in a statement. “They’ve been a huge innovative force in public radio, inventing technologies and projects to get people on the air who’d have a much harder time without them. They’re mission-driven, they’re super-capable and apparently they’re pretty good with computers.”

“We are huge fans of This American Life and are thrilled to support their move to self-distribution on our platform,” Jake Shapiro, CEO of PRX, said in a statement. “We’ve had the privilege of working closely with Ira and team to develop This American Life’ssuccessful mobile apps, and are honored to expand our partnership to the flagship broadcast.”

This American Life will take over aspects of self distribution from PRI, including selling underwriting as well as marketing the show to radio stations.

This American Life is produced by Chicago Public Media and hosted by Ira Glass. It has a weekly audience of 2.2 million people on the radio and more than a million downloads per week as one of the most popular podcasts in the country.